From Cuba to Miami, These Women Contend With Abusive Men and Countries
“Of Women and Salt,” Gabriela Garcia’s debut novel, evokes the history of a Cuban family rived by brutal events.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Why Are Migratory Birds Vanishing Out of the Sky?
In “A World on the Wing,” Scott Weidensaul describes the splendor of birds that can span continents in their flight, and also all the ways they are threatened.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Tammy Duckworth Was a Survivor Long Before Her Helicopter Was Shot Down
The senator from Illinois shares the occasionally harrowing, never boring story of her barrier-breaking life in a new memoir, “Every Day Is a Gift.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Puberty, Slut-Shaming and Cuddle Parties in Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’
Eight essays tell a collective story of female adolescence and womanhood, fraught with unwanted attention and abuse.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image
“Do Not Disturb,” by Michela Wrong, paints a picture of a country, and a region, long vexed by ethnic conflict, corrupt leadership and human rights abuses.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Why Constitutions Are the Safeguards of Freedom
Linda Colley’s “The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen” examines how constitutions came to be written — and why they sometimes fail.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights
Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward and Martha Wright shared a political cause and residency in Auburn, N.Y. “The Agitators,” by Dorothy Wickenden, tells the story of their joint crusade.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and America’s Most Liberal Generation
David Freedlander’s “The AOC Generation” offers a picture of a growing electorate that may be changing American politics forever.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'The Tree In Me' Is A Blooming Good Spring Read
As spring finally gets springing, our kids' books columnist Juanita Giles recommends The Tree in Me, a pink-splashed, exuberant celebration of kids enjoying nature.
(Image credit: Penguin Kids)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
Beverly Cleary Wrote About Real Life, and Her Readers Loved Her for It
The creator of Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins constructed a world that children recognized — one that changed with the times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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